Marvellous (2014) on Netflix
Neil Baldwin, born with a mild learning disability, lives in Newcastle-under-Lyme and sees the good in any situation. In the 1990s Stoke City's manager Lou Macari makes him the club's kit-man.
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- Netflix3.9/5
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Plot summary
Dramatisation of the true story of the life of Neil "Nello" Baldwin. Born with a mild learning disability but without the burden of social embarrassment & how his inexhaustible ability to see the good in any situation overcame any stigma society tried to label him with.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Marvellous (2014)
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- At the 2015 British Academy Television Awards, Marvellous took Best Single Drama and Gemma Jones won Best Supporting Actress as Neil Baldwin's mother; the real Baldwin collected the drama award himself and gave an acceptance speech.
- The Stoke City football ground scenes were not shot at Stoke: the production used Crewe Alexandra Football Club's Alexandra Stadium and the Racecourse Ground in Wrexham, North Wales for them, and shot much of the rest around Staffordshire and Keele University.
